About number and composition population of KHMEL'NYTS'KYI REGIONby All-Ukrainian population census'2001 data

The language structureof Khmel'nyts'kyi region, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data, is characterized by the following data::

The part of those whose mother tongue was( %)

the language of their nationality

Ukrainian

Russian

other language

Ukrainians

99.1

х

0.9

0.0

Russians

84.0

15.9

х

0.1

Poles

10.9

86.2

2.8

0.1

Belarussians

29.7

27.5

42.6

0.2

Jews

9.5

41.7

48.3

0.5

Moldavian

48.6

37.5

13.0

0.9

Armenians

67.3

14.1

18.4

0.2

Gypsies

53.7

36.7

3.5

6.1

Tatars

26.3

18.8

54.3

0.6

Germans

6.0

39.2

53.4

1.4

Azerbaijanians

58.8

25.1

15.5

0.6

Georgians

57.5

20.6

21.5

0.4

Bulgarians

27.5

35.7

36.8

-

Romanians

31.7

52.7

10.8

4.8

Uzbeks

43.1

32.0

24.9

-

Chuvashs

31.6

10.5

57.9

-

Kazakhs

31.4

23.8

42.9

1.9

Hungarians

44.0

45.0

11.0

-

Lithuanians

45.7

33.7

18.5

2.1

Mordvinian

15.2

12.0

72.8

-

other nationality

31.2

30.3

33.9

4.6

The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 95.2% of the population of Khmel'nyts'kyi region, this is by 3.9 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 4.1% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has increase by 3.9 percentage points.